Tsuge, K., Ano, T., Shoda, M. Characterization of Bacillus subtilis YB8, Coproducer of lipopeptides surfactin and plipastatin B1. The Journal of General and Applied Microbiology, 41, 541-545 (1995)
Tsuge, K., Ano, T., Shoda, M. Isolation of a gene essential for biosynthesis of the lipopeptide antibiotics plipastatin B1 and surfactin in Bacillus subtilis YB8. Archives of Microbiology, 165, 243-251 (1996)
Tsuge, K., Ano, T., Hirai, M., Nakamura, Y., Shoda, M. The genes degQ, pps, and lpa-8 (sfp) are responsible for conversion of Bacillus subtilis 168 to plipastatin production. Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy, 43, 2183-2192 (1999)
Itaya, M., Nagata, T., Shiroishi, T., Fujita, K., Tsuge, K. Efficient cloning and engineering of giant DNAs in a novel Bacillus subtilis genome vector. The Journal of Biochemistry (Tokyo), 128, 869-875 (2000)
Tsuge, K., Ohata, Y., Shoda, M. Gene yerP, involved in surfactin self-resistance in Bacillus subtilis. Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy, 45, 3566-3573 (2001)
Tsuge, K., Akiyama, T., Shoda, M. Cloning, sequencing, and characterization of the iturin A operon. Journal of Bacteriology, 183, 6265-6273 (2001)
Tsuge, K., Itaya, M. Recombinational transfer of 100-kilobase genomic DNA to plasmid in Bacillus subtilis 168. Journal of Bacteriology, 183, 5453-5458 (2001)
Ohashi, Y., Ohshima, H., Tsuge, K., Itaya, M. Far different levels of gene expression provided by an oriented cloning system in Bacillus subtilis and Escherichia coli. FEMS Microbiol Letters, 221, 125-130 (2003)
Kaneko, S., Tsuge, K., Takeuchi, T., Itaya, M. Conversion of sub-megasized DNA to desired structures using a novel Bacillus subtilis genome vector. Nucleic Acids Research, 31, e112 (2003)
Tsuge, K., Matsui, K., Itaya, M. One step assembly of multiple DNA fragments with a designed order and orientation in Bacillus subtilis plasmid Nucleic Acids Research, 31, e133 (2003)
Itaya, M., Fujita, K., Ikeuchi, M., Koizumi, M., Tsuge, K. Stable positional cloning of long continuous DNA in the Bacillus subtilis genome vector. The Journal of Biochemistry (Tokyo), 134, 513-519 (2003)
Tomita, S., Tsuge, K., Kikuchi, Y., Itaya, M. Targeted isolation of a designated region of the Bacillus subtilis genome by recombinational transfer. Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 70, 2508-2513 (2004)
Tomita, S., Tsuge, K., Kikuchi, Y., Itaya, M. Region dependent efficiency for recombinational transfer of the Bacillus subtilis 168 genome. Bioscience, Biotechnology, and Biochemistry, 68, 1382-1384 (2004)
Uotsu-Tomita, R., Kaneko, S., Tsuge, K., Itaya, M. Insertion of unmarked DNA sequences in multiple loci of the Bacillus subtilis 168 genome: an efficient selection method. Bioscience, Biotechnology, and Biochemistry, 69, 1036-1039 (2005)
Kaneko, S., Akioka, M., Tsuge, K., Itaya, M. DNA shuttling between plasmid vectors and a genome vector: systematic conversion and preservation of DNA libraries using the Bacillus subtilis genome (BGM) vector. Journal of Molecular Biology, 349, 1036-1044 (2005)
Tsuge, K., Inoue, S., Ano, T., Itaya, M., Shoda, M. Horizontal transfer of iturin A operon, itu, to Bacillus subtilis 168 and conversion into an iturin A producer. Antimicrobial Agents Chemotherapy, 49, 4641- 4648 (2005)
Itaya, M., Tsuge, K., Koizumi, M., Fujita, K. Combining two genomes in one Cell: Stable cloning of the cyanobacterium PCC6803 genome in the Bacillus subtilis 168 genome. Proceeding of the National. Academy of Science, USA., 102, 15971-15976 (2005)
Nishizaki, T., Tsuge, K., Itaya, M., Doi, N., Yanagawa, H. Metabolic engineering of carotenoid biosynthesis in Escherichia coli by ordered gene assembly in Bacillus subtilis. Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 73, 1355-1361 (2007)
Tsuge, K., Matsui, K., Itaya, M. Production of the non-ribosomal peptide plipastatin in Bacillus subtilis regulated by three relevant gene blocks assembled in a single movable DNA segment. Journal of Biotechnology, 129, 592-603 (2007)
Kuroki, A., Ohtani, N., Tsuge, K., Tomita, M., Itaya, M. Conjugational transfer system to shuttle giant DNA cloned by Bacillus subtilis genome (BGM) vector. Gene, 399, 72-80 (2007)
Itaya, M., Fujita, K., Kuroki, A., Tsuge, K. Bottom-up genome assembly using the Bacillus subtilis genome vector. Nature Methods, 5, 41-43 (2008)
Nakagawa, Y., Yugi, K, Tsuge, K., Itaya, M., Yanagawa, H., Sakakibara, Y. Operon structure optimization by random self-assembly. Chemistry of Natural Compounds, DOI 10.1007/s11047-009-9141-0 (2009)
Hiroe, A., Tsuge, K., Nomura, C. T., Itaya, M., Tsuge, T. Rearrangement of gene order in the phaCAB operon leads to effective production of ultra-high-molecular-weight poly[(R)-3-hydroxybutyrate] in genetically engineered Escherichia coli. Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 78, 3177-3184 (2012)
Honma, M., Tanaka, K., Konno, K., Tsuge, K., Okuno, T., Hashimotoa, M. Termination of the structural confusion between plipastatin A1 and fengycin IX. Bioorganic & Medichinal Chemistry, 20, 3793-3798 (2012)
Chen, S-K., Chin, W-C., Tsuge, K., Huang, C.C., Li, S-Y. Fermentation approach for enhancing 1-butanol production using engineered butanologenic Escherichia coli. Bioresource Technology, 145, 204-209 (2013)
Tsuge, K., Sato, Y., Kobayashi, Y., Gondo, M., Hasebe, M., Togashi, T., Tomita, M., Itaya, M. Method of preparing an equimolar DNA mixture for one-step DNA assembly of over 50 fragments. Scientific Reports, 5, 10655 (2015)
Han, C-H., Tsuge, K., Iba, H. Optimization of artificial operon construction by consultation algorithms utilizing LCS. 2016 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation, 4273-4280 (2016)
Tsuge, K., Itaya, M. Chapter 5: Gene Cluster or Operon Design by Ordered Gene Assembly in Bacillus subtilis (OGAB) Method. In Bioengineering: Principles, Methodologies and Applications, Nova Science Publishers, 153-168 (2010)
Itaya, M., Tsuge, K. Construction and manipulation of giant DNA by use of a genome vector. Methods in Enzymol., 498, 427-448 (2011)
Itaya, M., Tsuge, K. Chapter 9 Genome integrity, instability and construction In Escherichia coli and Bacillus subtilis; the frontiers of molecular microbiology revisited. Sadaie, Y., and Matsumoto, K. eds. Research Signpost (2012)
Itaya, M., Kaneko, S., Tsuge, K. Chapter 4 Efficient and accurate production of de novo designed large-size gene clusters by a novel Bacillus subtilis-based system. In Microbial Production, Anazawa, H., and Shimizu, S. eds. Springer (2014)